Venezuelans Swarm Past Border In Search of Food: "We Crossed Because ...

[BADecker]

Venezuelans Swarm Past Border In Search of Food: "We Crossed Because Our Children Are Hungry"

Venezuela is reaching the point of total desperation.

Women are now pouring over the Colombian border in effort to get their hands on groceries, trading on the black market and doing anything to survive.

That suggests other means of coping in the economically besieged capital of Caracas are wearing thin, and the difficulties of managing ordinary life under food shortages and long ration lines are forcing people to turn to alternative means of combating hunger.

According to the Miami Herald:

Dozens of Venezuelan women broke through a barricade along the Venezuelan-Colombian border on Tuesday with one goal in mind: finding food.

Local media in the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, estimated that more than 100 people — mostly women — defied Venezuela's border patrol and swarmed the frontier to do their shopping.

Inflation and falling oil prices have led to dramatic food shortages in Venezuela, and the border state of Táchira has been particularly hard-hit. In recent weeks, there have been widespread reports of looting and food riots.

"We decided to cross the border because there's no food in our homes and our children are hungry," one unnamed woman told Cúcuta's La Opinion newspaper.

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Venezuela unilaterally shut down its 1,274-mile border with Colombia beginning in August of last year, saying that its subsidized goods were being smuggled out.

The women were defiant and easily overwhelmed the border agents in an act of bold desperation that created quite a scene on video:

This has become a full blown humanitarian crisis.

The ongoing struggle between socialist President Maduro and the U.S.-friendly opposition are dragging society down with it into the lowest places, to the disgrace of their tactics.

Starving the people of Venezuela will prove – apparently – how much power can be taken away from a despotic regime floating on the price of oil.

Read more at http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/venezuelans-swarm-past-border-in-search-of-food-we-crossed-because-our-children-are-hungry_07062016.

[Masha Sha]

They didn't pay their dues to the Clinton foundation, because the Venezuelans wanted to have their own and be independent. The only way to have a chance in fighting hydra is to have a very honest and or very exclusive society. Venezuela being a classical American country with oligarchs in palaces and poor shit in slums they didn't stand a chance. The foundation is the globalist offensive arm.

[TicTacTic]

While the power divides resources and trying to prove to each other their case - people are dying . It is a pity that in the world today are still allowed such incidents .

[virtualx]

They didn't pay their dues to the Clinton foundation, because the Venezuelans wanted to have their own and be independent. The only way to have a chance in fighting hydra is to have a very honest and or very exclusive society. Venezuela being a classical American country with oligarchs in palaces and poor shit in slums they didn't stand a chance. The foundation is the globalist offensive arm.

Clinton foundation? Maybe a minor part of the problem but the problem started with destroying national companies and introducing a communist economic system. The problem is their government. It's very corrupt and authoritarian. They have oil, how can they be bankrupt? Every citizen could be living like a king of Qatar   Their politicians promised paradise but it was all lies. (does it sound familiar?)

[saddampbuh]

its a shame chavez didn't do more to build the country up and improve self sufficiency instead of handing out welfare to indians through the good years, they really missed an opportunity over there

[bryant.coleman]

its a shame chavez didn't do more to build the country up and improve self sufficiency instead of handing out welfare to indians through the good years, they really missed an opportunity over there

This issue is not just limited to Venezuela. Almost all the Latin American governments are like this. They play with populism, showering the voters with unviable subsidies and freebies. Still, I am sad with what happened to Venezuela. That country had the potential to become one of the richest nations in Latin America, due to the vast mineral resources (petroleum, natural gas, bauxite.etc).

Chavez did his part pretty well. When he assumed power, a large part of the Venezuelan population was living in slums and shanty towns, in horrible conditions. He improved the healthcare and municipal amenities in these settlements. He even brought doctors from Cuba to serve the poor people. But unfortunately, he was a complete failure in persuading these slum dwellers to work. They liked his freebies, and they wanted them forever.

So rather than spending the money in improving the education and infrastructure, Chavez spent most of it in providing free gasoline and food for the rural population. That is where he failed.

[Spendulus]

its a shame chavez didn't do more to build the country up and improve self sufficiency instead of handing out welfare to indians through the good years, they really missed an opportunity over there

This issue is not just limited to Venezuela. Almost all the Latin American governments are like this. They play with populism, showering the voters with unviable subsidies and freebies. Still, I am sad with what happened to Venezuela. That country had the potential to become one of the richest nations in Latin America, due to the vast mineral resources (petroleum, natural gas, bauxite.etc).

Chavez did his part pretty well. When he assumed power, a large part of the Venezuelan population was living in slums and shanty towns, in horrible conditions. He improved the healthcare and municipal amenities in these settlements. He even brought doctors from Cuba to serve the poor people. But unfortunately, he was a complete failure in persuading these slum dwellers to work. They liked his freebies, and they wanted them forever.

So rather than spending the money in improving the education and infrastructure, Chavez spent most of it in providing free gasoline and food for the rural population. That is where he failed.

Your own description of the events seems to prove that he did a truly terrible job, instead of "doing his part pretty well."

Somewhere in there is the socialist principle that the nature of man can be changed, and that he can work for the common good.  Maybe, do you think, he believed this, and had to find out the hard way?  That people only strive to better their own selfish interests?

Personally I view that as a reality to use, and therein to better society and civilization, instead of something to suppress or criticize.

[saddampbuh]

there's plenty of evidence that people can be persuaded to work for the common good, think of the dprk, 1930s germany, early ussr, the mistake i made in supporting chavez was believing socialist ideas could be applied to a low iq lazy population of south american aboriginals

perhaps if chavez had established a full dictatorship instead of attempting to work within the social democractic system he could have done more to rapidly develop the country instead of having to buy votes with handouts

[bryant.coleman]

perhaps if chavez had established a full dictatorship instead of attempting to work within the social democractic system he could have done more to rapidly develop the country instead of having to buy votes with handouts

That was the best option. And that is how China became the largest economy in the world. Democracy is a failed concept outside Europe and North America, just like Socialism and National Socialism. In third world nations, no one can win democratic elections without giving freebies and handouts. The people are not intelligent enough to understand that the handout culture will do more harm than good in the future.

[Daniel91]

It's really shame what Chavez did with Venezuela.
Venezuela is so rich country, specially with oil and all people could benefit from it there.
Instead, Chavez started socialist experiment and destroyed whole country.
Now, people don't have food, security, heath service, nothing.
I really feel sorry because of them.